The Greatest Books of All Time on Education

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4420 Memoirs Of The Author Of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman William Godwin 1798 British English
4420 Guide To Kulchur Ezra Pound 1938 American English
4448 Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa 1998 Dutch English
4458 The Truly Disadvantaged William Julius Wilson 1987 American English
4470 The Unheavenly City Edward C. Banfield 1970 American English
4499 Mister Pip Lloyd Jones 2006 New Zealand English
4510 The Aula Hermann Kant 1965 German German
4527 The Medium Is The Massage Marshall McLuhan 1967 Canadian English
4537 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
4542 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4555 A Naughty Boy G'afur G'ulоm 1940 Uzbek Uzbek
4676 Our Bodies, Ourselves Unknown 1970 American English
4718 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4721 The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta 1976 Nigerian English
4723 Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe 1935 American English
4733 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
4829 Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf 1976 German German
4866 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4988 Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie Eve Curie 1937 French French
5002 Be Faithful Unto Death Zsigmond Móricz 1921 Hungarian Hungarian
5039 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out Richard P. Feynman 1999 American English
5104 Saving The Appearances Owen Barfield 1957 British English
5107 Brother Of The More Famous Jack Barbara Trapido 1982 British English
5117 North Toward Home Willie Morris 1967 American English
5249 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5254 The Harpole Report J. L. Carr 1972 British English
5292 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5303 The Love Of Learning And The Desire For God Jean Leclercq 1960 French French
5413 Bad Science Ben Goldacre 2008 British English
5444 Egy polgár vallomásai Sandor Marai 1934 Hungarian Hungarian
5515 Think On These Things Jiddu Krishnamurti 1964 Indian English
5590 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5598 Changing My Mind Zadie Smith 2009 British English
5625 Olivia Dorothy Bussy 1949 British English
5626 School At The Frontier Géza Ottlik 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5666 The Little Misery François Mauriac 1951 French French
5666 The boys Henry de Montherlant 1969 French French
5666 For Your Own Good Alice Miller 1980 Swiss French
5772 The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway 1989 Australian English
5778 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5811 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
5824 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5833 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
5838 Miss Susie Slagle's Augusta Tucker 1939 American English
5845 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5861 The School for Wives Molière 1662 French French
5861 The Book Of The Courtier Baldassare Castiglione 1528 Italian Italian
5890 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
5969 Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 1997 Chinese English
5985 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
5991 The Children's Book A. S. Byatt 2009 British English
6002 The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton 2008 New Zealand English
6121 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
6128 Negroland Margo Jefferson 2015 American English
6162 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Peter De Vries 1983 American English
6167 The Tower Uwe Tellkamp 2008 German German
6173 Philosophy and Civilization John Dewey 1931 American English
6216 The Origin Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6224 Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane 1986 South African English
6293 Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 2006 American English
6302 A Life Of Her Own Émilie Carles 1977 French French
6320 A Fortunate Life A. B. Facey 1981 Australian English
6321 Living Up The Street Gary Soto 1985 American English
6380 Enquiries Into The Course Of Nature In The Development Of The Human Race Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1797 Swiss German
6430 Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 1954 German English
6471 The Belles Lettres Papers Charles Simmons 1987 American English
6480 I'm Not Scared Niccolò Ammaniti 2001 Italian Italian
6484 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6492 A Voice From The South Anna Julia Cooper 1892 American English
6521 Crow Lake Mary Lawson 2002 Canadian English
6530 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
6556 King Matt The First Janusz Korczak 1923 Polish Polish
6558 Prep Curtis Sittenfeld 2005 American English
6573 Combats Pour L'histoire Lucien Febvre 1953 French French
6598 Benjamin Franklin Carl Van Doren 1938 American English
6604 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
6636 The Opoponax Monique Wittig 1983 French French
6654 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6660 Mendeleyev's Dream Paul Strathern 2000 British English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
6717 Stories of Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter 1801 Austrian German
6717 The Son of a Servant August Strindberg 1886 Swedish Swedish
6717 On The Aesthetic Education Of Man Friedrich Schiller 1794 German German
6755 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6767 A Grammatical Institute Of The English Language Noah Webster 1783 American English
6767 A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible Isaiah Thomas 1788 American English
6767 New England Primer Unknown 1687 American English
6767 Mc Guffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer William Holmes McGuffey 1836 American English
6767 Peter Parley's Universal History Samuel Goodrich 1837 American English
6767 The American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine E. Beecher 1869 American English
6767 Idaho Federal Writers' Project 1937 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6835 There Are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz 1991 American English
6903 Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod 1987 American English
6957 There Will Be No Miracles Here Casey Gerald 2018 American English
6989 Red China Blues Jan Wong 1996 Canadian English
7106 Technopoly Neil Postman 1992 American English
7215 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7215 An Apology For Poetry Philip Sidney 1595 British English
7215 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7215 The Learned Ladies Molière 1672 French French
7215 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
7215 Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1861 British English
7215 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
7215 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7215 The Rise Of David Levinsky Abraham Cahan 1917 American English
7214 The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale 1985 American English
7566 Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang 1997 Chinese English
7588 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7711 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7754 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7781 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7795 The Politics of American English, 1776-1950 David Simpson 1986 American English
7817 Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Lensey Namioka 1999 American English
7851 Thinking In Pictures Temple Grandin 1995 American English
7869 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
7910 The Lesson Eugène Ionesco 1951 French French
7985 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
8051 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
8075 Nurture Shock Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman 2008 American English